Hello virtual friends!For those of you who are in the greater New York area, I am pasting information from the

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"A new Meetup Group has been set up in the greater New York area tor educators interested in the use of virtual worlds for educational purposes, especially for ESL/Foreign Language education. For more information connect to the group at:…

With the excellent help of Graham Davies' relatives, the official ownership of the CALICO/EUROCALL VW SIG Ning has now been passed over to yours truly. One issue that we had been experiencing was that our Ning was maxxed out at 150 members, the most allowed in the cheaper version of the Ning. I pitiched in some money to upgrade us, so now the Ning can have up to 10,000 members. I think that should cover things nicely. I'm looking for input on future directions of the…

This year is the 6th annual SLanguages Conference. Please join us for 3 days of presentations (about 50 in total), workshops, demo lessons, and tours all related to language learning online. The conference presenters and attendees come from all around the world, so…

Only 3 places left for the international course `Methodologies and Technologies to promote oral communication in Language Education ' in Valencia, Spain, the second week of October (week 42), a result of the NIFLAR project.

Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out that Kristi Jauregi Ondarra, who is the interim head of the EUROCALL VW SIG (taking over from our departed friend Graham Davies) was able to secure internet access and a projector, etc. for the EUROCALL Conference VW SIG meeting.

This means that those of us who could not go to the conference this year can still join in for the SIG meeting via Second Life. If you are interested, meet us at the EduNation Sandbox.

On Sunday, 1st July 2012, 7am SLT/ 2pm GMT (3pm UK time) we met on EduNation to celebrate the life of Graham Davies, founder and first president of EuroCALL who passed away on 21st of June (2 weeks after his 70th birthday) after a long battle with cancer.

Please join us this coming Sunday, July 1st at 2pm GMT (7am SLT) for a celebration of the life of Graham Davies and his Second Life counterpart Groovy Winkler.

Rather than something too formal, this will be a time to share our stories and memories about both Graham (and Groovy!!) and his huge impact on all of us!! Come and share your favorite stories with everyone.

The funeral service for Graham Davies will be held on Friday 6 July in St James the Less Church, Stubbings. Should some of you wish to attend the service, please contact me as soon as possible, and I will send you the details.…

For any of you joining us at CALICO this year at beautiful Notre Dame University (the one in the real world), the Virtual Worlds SIG meeting will be held tomorrow (Thursday, June 14th) from 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m (US, Eastern Time Zone). The meeting will be held on campus at the Notre Dame Conference Center, Room 202.

If anyone would care to join the SIG meeting virtually, I'm sure that several of us will be logged into Second Life during the meeting (I forgot…